10 km ESE of Ramón Santana, Dominican Republic

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 21 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 7,900× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 350× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 250× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 4.1 about 21 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 45× more

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log₁₀E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 18.5201, -69.0877. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

40 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

1. 4.6 7 km WNW of Guaymate, Dominican Republic 14:12 UTC
2. 2.9 31 km S of La Romana, Dominican Republic 06:56 UTC
3. 3.3 19 km NW of Salvaleón de Higüey, Dominican Republic 10:59 UTC
4. 2.6 14 km NW of Salvaleón de Higüey, Dominican Republic 16:16 UTC
5. 1.9 13 km SSW of San Rafael del Yuma, Dominican Republic 07:31 UTC
6. 3.2 7 km ENE of Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Dominican Republic 04:07 UTC
7. 3.8 14 km SW of Salvaleón de Higüey, Dominican Republic 05:51 UTC
8. 3.2 1 km NE of Guaymate, Dominican Republic 19:58 UTC
9. 3.1 16 km SE of Miches, Dominican Republic 07:08 UTC
10. 2.5 11 km SE of Salvaleón de Higüey, Dominican Republic 19:22 UTC
11. 2.8 17 km SSE of La Romana, Dominican Republic 13:10 UTC
12. 3.4 17 km SW of Salvaleón de Higüey, Dominican Republic 18:50 UTC
13. 2.8 17 km SW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 07:10 UTC
14. 2.8 16 km SE of La Romana, Dominican Republic 05:32 UTC
15. 2.5 5 km WNW of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic 08:42 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 13:27 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.6 on 2016-03-20 — it released about 5.6 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.